[plug] Which brand of laptop?

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, sothisistheinternet wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:40:09 +0800
> From: sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au, billk at iinet.net.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Which brand of laptop?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:00 AM, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> My little Sony (work) is a fantastic machine and runs linux well.  They
>> are very reliable (much more so than Dell) - BUT when they break they
>> are almost impossible to get fixed in a reasonable time (in WA). Other
>> staff at work have been without machines for months.  Plus repair costs
>> seem very high.
>
> Yes, that's why I am not a fan of Sony laptops. Been there done that :) :(
>
> Ari
>

Since the Sony Vaio has been mentioned, I wonder whether anyone 
remembers a Sony Vaio laptop that was available in the early 1990's, 
that had as the CPU, a Motorola 68020 (or a similar Motorola CPU), 
similar to the CPU in the DEC PDP 11/44, and, came with the intalled OS 
being SCO UNIX? I think, from emory, that the price was somewhere around 
$5,000.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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